Tate & Lyle’s US food ingredients team in Decatur, Illinois has come up with a new ingredient for the snack category Coated Snack CREATE 700 at the Snack Food Association’s SnaxPo 2006 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The coating can be used to coat peanuts, soy nuts and sunflower kernels. The various flavors that are available are Spicy fire roasted strawberries, chili lime soy nut, coated blueberries and golden raisins. This technology provides dual snack solutions with the soft food inside and a crispy coating outside. The coating is made of SPLENDA® Sucralose and is therefore low in fats and sugar.
As per Doris Dougherty, senior food scientist, Tate & Lyle:
Our new Solution Set makes dried fruits and raisins more interesting and appealing or soy nuts more tasty. This technology can be used to revolutionize snacks by offering fruit or soy nut choices in forms that are just fun to eat. The sky’s the limit in terms of how the coating can be flavored or textured by use of oats, bran or other products. For example, the spicy, fire roasted strawberry is a unique, unexpected combination of hot and sweet and has a crispy jacket surrounding a soft, chewy fruit piece.
The food coating is a very innovative ingredient and that would provide a breakthrough in the food industry. The food technology applied is a mixture of adhesion slurry, containing Stadex® dextrins, Tapioca Dextrins or STAR-DRI® Corn Syrup Solids and dry mix, over the food pieces in a tumbler to achieve a certain thickness, to give you a complete flavour with only 3 to 5 percent moisture to give you a perfect crunch. Coated Snack CREATE 700 would save the cost involved in the production of healthier snacks and it would also increase production at a quick pace.
This is a great snacking option as it provides healthy food in the busy lives of people. If a snacking option involves coating your plain potato, onion, apple rings with various low-cal and low-sugar flavors, then it would definitely the best deal for all the consumers and also for celiac and diabetic patients.
